The Exception Clause: Are You Committing Adultery?

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This article, taken in conjunction with the one you recently posted, makes me think that you are working through some conflicting issues in your mind regarding how the issue of divorce plays out in the life of Christianity. Am I right?
 
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What is the exception clause? What are the exception(s) for which Jesus allows remarriage after a divorce?
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So Jesus forbade divorce, excepting in cases of porneia (a general term in Greek for sexual immorality).

The general conservative Christian view of divorce is that it should not happen except in cases where the marriage covenant has been violated: adultery, desertion, spousal violence, etc. In other words, porneia, more or less (also noting that Paul authoritatively broadened the reasons for lawful divorce in 1 Cor. 7).

I don't see the issue here.
 
Anyone who is looking for an exception clause has a problem. They need to start looking at their marriage vows, the commitment they made, and to man up and live by their commitments. Someone else's decision in a relationship to not live up to their commitments is on them, not you.
 
Ransom said:
So Jesus forbade divorce, excepting in cases of porneia (a general term in Greek for sexual immorality).

The general conservative Christian view of divorce is that it should not happen except in cases where the marriage covenant has been violated: adultery, desertion, spousal violence, etc. In other words, porneia, more or less (also noting that Paul authoritatively broadened the reasons for lawful divorce in 1 Cor. 7).

I don't see the issue here.
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I concur. I had a moral failure in my life and spent 10 years studying this topic, reading every book on the market, almost. And in the end, I come down right there, the standard protestant position.

Adultery (including porn addiction) and abandonment (from 1 Cor 7 where it says if the unbeliever leaves, you are free to divorce and remarry, and it they profess faith, they need excommunicated and are then considered an unbeliever).

John Murray's book, old though it is, lays it out perfectly.


You can read his position here: https://thirdmill.org/magazine/arti...rce.remarriage.html/at/Divorce and Remarriage
 
I have found this topic to be very interesting. Throughout my life I have known many Independent Baptist with varing views on the subjest. For what its worth here are the main ones I have heard:

1. Devorce should be avoided in all cases even infidelity.

2. Divorce only as a last resort, in the case of infidelity. Some say in the case of infidelity it is acceptable, but remarrage would be a sin.

3. Divorce is acceptable only in the case of infidelity or physical abuse.

4. Remarrage is only acceptable if the other spouse has remarried and thus the marrage cannot be restored.

5. Remarrage is only acceptable if the other spouse is dead.
 
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